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authorDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>2008-02-04 22:28:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:12 -0800
commitd2876d08d86f22ce1f276fc29f6baec8b53e32c6 (patch)
treed9d059fad208001edb58d9dff3ed6ad64c8e7407 /Documentation
parenta9c5fff542544c8595bb12efeb278a96d99386fc (diff)
gpiolib: add gpio provider infrastructure
Provide new implementation infrastructure that platforms may choose to use when implementing the GPIO programming interface. Platforms can update their GPIO support to use this. In many cases the incremental cost to access a non-inlined GPIO should be less than a dozen instructions, with the memory cost being about a page (total) of extra data and code. The upside is: * Providing two features which were "want to have (but OK to defer)" when GPIO interfaces were first discussed in November 2006: - A "struct gpio_chip" to plug in GPIOs that aren't directly supported by SOC platforms, but come from FPGAs or other multifunction devices using conventional device registers (like UCB-1x00 or SM501 GPIOs, and southbridges in PCs with more open specs than usual). - Full support for message-based GPIO expanders, where registers are accessed through sleeping I/O calls. Previous support for these "cansleep" calls was just stubs. (One example: the widely used pcf8574 I2C chips, with 8 GPIOs each.) * Including a non-stub implementation of the gpio_{request,free}() calls, making those calls much more useful. The diagnostic labels are also recorded given DEBUG_FS, so /sys/kernel/debug/gpio can show a snapshot of all GPIOs known to this infrastructure. The driver programming interfaces introduced in 2.6.21 do not change at all; this infrastructure is entirely below those covers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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